• Metaphysician Undercover
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    I think I said earlier, or perhaps in another thread, that there are inconsistencies and ambiguity in Plotinus' principles which make working out specific problems of how the fundamental principles are related to each other impossible.
  • frank
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    think I said earlier, or perhaps in another thread, that there are inconsistencies and ambiguity in Plotinus' principles which make working out specific problems of how the fundamental principles are related to each other impossible.Metaphysician Undercover

    Definitely. His solution to the problem of evil is squirrelly. It's the same problem any kind of monist has. Plotinus' view was popular in Rome during his life, not as a religious perspective but more like science. Plato was like their quantum theory. There were multiple forms of Platonism.
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